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Example sentences for: mistake

How can you use “mistake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If you're put out by bringing up kids, it's because you're selfish, or lazy, or immature, or made a big mistake when you weren't prepared to handle the consequences.
Eleanor's friends--even the lesbian ones--occasionally made the mistake of falling for Franklin's easy charms.
"I think all three of them were a mistake," Gore responded, neatly underscoring the lameness of Bradley's answer.
Walsh's first mistake, which he acknowledges, was not pitching a fit to try to prevent Congress from granting immunity to the chief protagonists.
For they sent Johns a dream, in which he saw himself painting an American flag, and the result was the work with which his name will always be associated, an image he would produce many renderings of--white flags, flags on orange backgrounds, flags with (by mistake) 64 stars, flags drawn in pencil and graphite wash, flags in superimposed triplicate.